Housman, “1887,” And The Queen Of England “1887,” the first poem in A.E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad, is an elegant expression of the fundamental irony of wars fought to preserve a country’s way of lifeContinue reading

Anthony Lane and The New Yorker Anthony Lane,1 a film critic for The New Yorker whose credentials as a serious thinker were rendered suspect in the eyes of some simply by virtue of his beingContinue reading

While A.E. Housman is perhaps best known as the author of “When I was one-and-twenty” and “To An Athlete Dying Young,” his most anthologized poems and those most often found in English Literature readingContinue reading